We follow Sakamoto-san, a former salesman turned farmer, throughout the grape growing season.
- Sakamoto-san’s website
- Sakamoto-san’s instagram
- Filmed, Scripted, and Edited by Bobby Coutu from @Q2Japan
- Produced and Narrated by Greg Greg Lam
Sources:
- Grape physiology https://www.jordanwinery.com/blog/lifecycle-vineyard-grape-flowers/
- Bloom! The flowering of the grape plant https://youtu.be/4ln3bcujqGM?si=B37lcMOpkpBwZlJ-
- What are the grapes we eat? https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/vitis-vinifera
- When did grapes arrive in Japan? https://int.japanesetaste.com/blogs/japanese-taste-blog/a-guide-to-the-delectable-world-of-japanese-grape-varieties?
- Research and development in early Japan https://smallfarms.oregonstate.edu/smallfarms/tsuneo-kanzawa-man-who-saved-grape-industry-japan
- How many grape varieties are there in Japan? https://www.fao.org/4/x6897E/x6897e07.htm
- Over 100 grape varieties in Japan? https://int.japanesetaste.com/blogs/japanese-taste-blog/a-guide-to-the-delectable-world-of-japanese-grape-varieties?country=JP&redirected_from=us#varieties-of-japanese-grapes
- Grape trends and falling sales https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h01089/
- Why Okayama? https://www.okayama-japan.jp/en/19020
- Muscat of Alexandria (possibly originating from north Africa?) https://iv.ucdavis.edu/files/24342.pdf
- Grape sweetness calculation https://www.grapeskills.com/en/post/measuring-sweetness-in-grapes
- Illegal to ship or sell seeds abroad https://phys.org/news/2023-12-sour-grapes-japan-premium-fruits.html
- Shine Muscat Registration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shine_Muscat and https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/3198850/which-country-produces-best-shine-muscat-grapes-china-japan-or-south-korea-and-why-are-they-so?
- Business Insider https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ijeOkudkg4
- Worth it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGAfZ-PTaNU
- @ironchefdad https://www.youtube.com/shorts/btYMceaK9D8
- NARO https://www.naro.go.jp/index.html
- Kanzawa https://smallfarms.oregonstate.edu/smallfarms/tsuneo-kanzawa-man-who-saved-grape-industry-japan
- Yamanashi https://kaz794889.exblog.jp/9240108/
- Wine party woodblock Utagawa Yoshikazu, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Foreigner’s_Wine_Party.png
- Meiji banquet Toyohara Chikanobu, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kenpohapu-chikanobu.jpg
- Meiji government not readable By not readable – National Diet Library Achives, Tokyo, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1341423
- By Unknown photographer – F. H. King, Farmers of forty centuries, 1911, p. 246., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=83967225
- Yamanashi Tourism page https://www.yamanashi-kankou.jp/special/budougari_5sen.html
- Yamanashi Wine https://www.fuefuki-syunkan.net/2011/wine_isyyo1.html
- Oldest winery in Japan https://www.city.koshu.yamanashi.jp/map/info/2021011400281/file_contents/wine_english_web.pdf
- By 不明 – https://www.ryushuen.com/posts/4786847/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=133436517
- By Unknown author – 勝沼町文化協会『写真で見る ふるさと勝沼』勝沼町文化協会、1988年, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=133198538
- By Asturio Cantabrio – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=133437374
- By Unknown author – 勝沼町文化協会『写真で見る ふるさと勝沼』勝沼町文化協会、1988年, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=133198540
- Bunch of red Japanese grapes sold for $11,000 at auction https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2019/07/558aa0640d7d-bunch-of-red-japanese-grapes-sold-for-11000-at-auction.html
- Concord Grapes on vines.jpg By midiman – Flickr: Concord Grapes, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12687768
- Katsunuma vineyard 02.jpg By genta_hgr – Grape, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7127585
- By John Frederick Lewis – BAEW6G-4zKj7LA at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22213698
- By Daderot – Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=85315575
- By Inoue Yasuji – This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. See the Image and Data Resources Open Access Policy, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=58779965
- By Internet Archive Book Images – https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43960865
- By Internet Archive Book Images – https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44147050
- The International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) https://www.upov.int/portal/index.html.en
- WTO https://www.wto.org/
- https://www.irasutoya.com/
